If the Packers want a clean explanation for what happened on Sunday, they can pick their favorite version. Maybe it was payback.
Maybe it was just football turning on Green Bay at the worst possible time. Either way, the result was the same: the Lions walked out of Sunday with a 20-17 win, and Packers fans were left trying to sort out what was real and what was noise.
That’s where OK Go’s “Get Over It” comes in.
The song fits the mood because the argument around this game has already split in two. One side sees comeuppance and justified retribution for years of officiating that has supposedly gone Green Bay’s way in key moments. The other side sees a Packers team that was simply worse in every area, with only Detroit’s self-inflicted mistakes keeping the game close at all.
Either way, the message is the same: get over it-you’ve got “Thursday Night Football” to prepare for!
Rewind to 2002, back when the Playstation 2 was everywhere and Madden NFL 2003 was fresh in the wrapper. You’re scrolling through the league, trying to make sense of the Detroit Lions, wondering how they keep landing in the same place year after year.
At some point, it feels easier to rebuild one of the NFL Europe teams in Franchise mode than to fix the Lions. So you take control of all 32 teams and start playing puppet master.
Except Mike McMahon-you and your 77 acceleration can stay under center.
That’s the world where “Get Over It” by OK Go lives in your head, right alongside the EA Trax soundtrack and the constant urge to cut off whatever Bon Jovi song keeps coming back around. The track becomes the one you can’t stop hearing as you mess with rosters, swipe Torry Holt from the Rams, and steal Ricky Williams from the Dolphins. It’s the song that keeps looping while the rest of the game blurs by.
And in the case of Sunday’s Lions-Packers game, the looping theme is manipulation, corruption, cheating.
Packers fans had a rough Sunday and Monday, and maybe Tuesday will bring its own version of the same debate. The bigger picture, though, is harder to dodge: Green Bay’s rushing attack is the least efficient and productive in the NFL since 1994, with 2.9 rushing yards per attempt. That makes this the first time in over thirty years that a team has been under 3.0 yards per carry.
When the deep passing game isn’t being propped up by immoral and unethical behavior, the Packers are what they looked like on Sunday. Detroit’s mistakes gave Green Bay a chance to hang around, but the game still ended the way it probably should have: with the better team winning.
Hey! Get, get, get, get, get over it!
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